Posts Tagged ‘ media ’

It's no secret the newspaper industry is struggling.Like many businesses in this recession, newspapers are fighting to come up with new ways to attract -- and keep -- their customers, whether those customers are subscribers, advertisers, or hopefully, both. But not at any cost. U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, has introduced a bill, "The Newspaper Revitalization...
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We bid farewell this morning to the Putnam County Courier, a newspaper that has been publishing for more than 150 years. I will miss seeing the paper's reporter, Eric Gross, at virtually every event I attend. Blaming the economic downturn, Taconic Press is closing its doors (see article below) leaving only two media outlets...
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“I am not the Grinch, but parchments from 1814 and Twinkies don’t mix,” - Putnam County Clerk Denis Sant Good Monday Morning, We had a tiny bit of snow yesterday and in response to that first visual blast of winter, highway crews across the county emptied the oceans of salt and left it in mounds...
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PlanPutnam’s Annual Fund Drive: Day 12 <- Click Here Good Thursday Morning, The sun rose this morning over a different Town of Patterson than existed when it set last night. This is one of those stories that gives you a bit of a chill, when democracy seems to work and political shenanigans – for the sake...
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With corporate owned news outlets becoming more and more obsessed with the simplistic, with the sensational, with commercial advertisements, with dutifully toeing the government and corporate lines, you need an independent media and News That Matters is an independent as you get.
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